Educational technology plays an important role in 21st century education by supporting collaboration, providing context for learning, and giving constant access to information. Students should learn to work together to discover, analyze, and understand information as a team. Technology allows for learning that students can apply and see value in outside the classroom. It also helps students develop 21st century skills that are necessary for success, such as the ability to learn on their own and share knowledge digitally. For schools and teachers to be effective, they need training and proficiency with technology in order to transform standards, instruction, and professional development in a changing world.

1. The Role and Functions of
Educational Technology in
the 21st Century Education

5. Education should be collaborative:
• Students must learn how to collaborate with others.
•
They should be encouraged to work together to discover information ,piece it
together, and construct meaning .
• Students should learn how to recognize the different strengths and talents each
person can bring to a project and change roles depending on these attributes.

6. Learning should have context:
• The teacher can make a point of helping
students to understand how the skills they are
building can be applied in their lives.
• Students will be much more motivated
to learn something that they can see the value in.
• Lessons have little purpose if they do not have
any impact in a student’s life outside of the
school.

7. The Role of Technology in 21st Century
• Technology allows for 24/7
access to information
• Constant social interaction, and
• Easily created and shared digital
content.

9. • Knowledge of core content is
necessary, but no longer sufficient,
for success in a competitive world.
• Used comprehensively, technology
helps students develop 21st century
skills.

10. To keep pace with a changing world, schools need to offer more:
• rigorous
• relevant
• engaging opportunities for students to learn-and to apply their
knowledge and skills in meaningful ways.
Used comprehensively, technology supports new research-based approaches
and promising practices in teaching and learning.

11. To be effective in schools and classroom, teachers and
administrators need training tools and proficiency in 21st century
skills themselves.
Used comprehensively, technology transforms standards and
assessments, curriculum and instruction, professional
development, learning environments, and administration.

13. 1.Improvement of teaching
• EducationalTechnology analyses the
process of teaching thoroughly.
• It tries to find out the different variables
of teaching, their interlinks, effects upon
each other relationships, theories of
teaching phases of teaching principles of
teaching, maxims of teaching etc.